HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS

Learning Healthcare Organizations

Learning Healthcare Organizations

Introduction

Understanding process of change is an important element for the implementation of initiatives pertaining to quality improvement. In health care organizations like MultiCare Health System and Adventist Health Care, change will be required in order to correct what most of the organizations consider to outdated and incomplete systems of health care. This study mainly focuses on both that is learning health care organizations and the fields of business concerning how the process of change takes place at MultiCare Health System and Adventist Health Care at the organizational and also individual levels.

Discussion

MultiCare Health System examines the culture of change; moreover, MultiCare Health System also focuses on changing clinician behavior, which is an instrumental factor to any attempt which is directed in the learning health care organization.

Adventist Health Care concentrates on issues pertaining to the leadership of the organization, in conjunction with the required steps in order to conduct change in Adventist Health Care.

In addition to this, Adventist Health Care also provides three case examples of initiatives relating to quality improvement which show how the application of understanding the change management can help in implementing the successful quality improvement programs.

modification of any part of the organization. This indicates that the change can affect almost every aspect of these health care organizations, such as work schedules, basic grouping of jobs, span of management, the general design of the organization and the people themselves. Both Adventist Health Care and MultiCare Health System should note that any change in the organization may involve effects beyond the area in which the change is made.

The Forces for Change

Adventist Health Care recognizes the need for change when changing or has yet to change something that relates to them. In this arrangement, for Adventist Health Care, there is nothing else but change as well. In fact, the main reason for the emergence of problems faced by the Adventist Health Care, is Improvidence, however, changes or lack of proper response to changing circumstances. The forces for change may lie outside the Adventist Health Care or be stuck in the same.

External Forces

In view of MultiCare Health System, external forces for change stem from the general environment and purposeful Adventist Health Care. For example, two energy crises, the maturation of Japanese automotive industry, floating exchange rates and the volatility of international interest rates - all the manifestations of the international dimension of the environment have had a profound influence on the American car companies. In addition to this, new rules for the production and competition forced them to dramatic changes in the way of action. Moreover, technical dimension can bring new production techniques that the Adventist Health Care must be learned. The economic dimension affects inflation, cost of living and the money supply.

In addition to this, due to its proximity to the environment, it is appropriate or even greater force to work toward change. Competitors affect the Adventist Health Care through the structure of their pricing and assortment policy (Franco & Almeida, ...